John Wayne Airport-Orange County in May 2024

78.0%departed on time

BTS: A flight is counted as on time if it arrived less than 15 minutes after its scheduled time. Only carriers with at least 0.5 percent of domestic scheduled passenger revenue report.

In May 2024, reporting carriers scheduled 3,707 domestic departures from John Wayne Airport-Orange County (SNA). 78.0% left less than 15 minutes late and 79.5% reached their destination on time; 1.3% were cancelled.

Nationally that month, 73.4% of flights departed on time and 72.3% arrived on time, so SNA departures were 4.6 points above the national departure figure.

Flights arriving at SNA that month were on time 76.9% of the time (3,707 scheduled arrivals).

Of the delay minutes that carriers assigned to a BTS cause category that month, late-arriving aircraft 41%, air carrier 37% and national aviation system 20%.

On time 79.5%
Arrived 15+ minutes late 18.6%
Cancelled 1.3%
Diverted 0.5%

Every scheduled departure from SNA in May 2024, judged by arrival at the destination.

May 2024 against a year earlier, the airport's year and the nation

Measure	May 2024	Year earlier	SNA, 12 months to Jul 2026	All reported flights, May 2024
Departed on time	78.0%	—	78.9%	73.4%
Arrived on time	79.5%	—	80.3%	72.3%
Cancelled	1.3%	—	1.1%	1.4%
Average departure delay (late minutes only)	18.1 min	—	15.2 min	20.8 min
Scheduled departures a day	124	—	124	20,325
Scheduled departures	3,707	—	45,231	609,743

Airlines that month

Reporting carrier	Flights	Share	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
WN Southwest Airlines	1,212	33%	83.4%	0.8 min	0.7%
AA American Airlines	615	17%	69.6%	35.1 min	4.4%
UA United Airlines	529	14%	78.3%	2.9 min	0.8%
DL Delta Air Lines	440	12%	87.5%	0.4 min	0.0%
AS Alaska Airlines	320	9%	87.2%	-1.5 min	1.3%
OO SkyWest Airlines	319	9%	64.9%	13.6 min	0.0%
F9 Frontier Airlines	94	3%	80.9%	-0.9 min	5.3%
G4 Allegiant Air	94	3%	76.6%	3.1 min	1.1%
NK Spirit Airlines	84	2%	90.5%	-0.7 min	0.0%

Busiest routes that month

Route	Cities	Flights	On time	Avg arrival delay	Cancelled
SNA–PHX	Santa Ana to Phoenix	369	81.6%	17.1 min	0.5%
SNA–SEA	Santa Ana to Seattle	340	87.1%	-0.5 min	1.2%
SNA–SFO	Santa Ana to San Francisco	338	58.6%	17.2 min	0.0%
SNA–DEN	Santa Ana to Denver	326	80.4%	-1.1 min	1.8%
SNA–LAS	Santa Ana to Las Vegas	292	81.8%	1.4 min	1.0%
SNA–DFW	Santa Ana to Dallas/Fort Worth	265	63.0%	23.6 min	9.8%
SNA–OAK	Santa Ana to Oakland	223	86.1%	-0.6 min	0.4%
SNA–SJC	Santa Ana to San Jose	223	84.3%	0.7 min	0.0%
SNA–ORD	Santa Ana to Chicago	210	70.0%	14.3 min	0.5%
SNA–SMF	Santa Ana to Sacramento	187	90.4%	-3.8 min	0.0%
SNA–SLC	Santa Ana to Salt Lake City	150	86.7%	1.9 min	0.0%
SNA–ATL	Santa Ana to Atlanta	101	81.2%	3.6 min	0.0%

By scheduled departure hour

On-time share:under 62%6270768288% and over

Share of departures that left less than 15 minutes late, by scheduled hour (local time), May 2024.

Delay causes

BTS cause category	Share of delay minutes	National, May 2024	Minutes
Air carrier	36.7%	29.8%	21,435
Late-arriving aircraft	40.6%	43.0%	23,708
National Aviation System	20.4%	20.1%	11,942
Extreme weather	2.3%	7.0%	1,344
Security	0.0%	0.1%	0

58,429 delay minutes on 691 flights that arrived 15 or more minutes late and carried a cause report. Carriers assign the categories; see what each category means.

Questions and answers

How many flights left SNA on time in May 2024?

78.0% of 3,707 scheduled domestic departures left less than 15 minutes late, and 79.5% reached their destination on time. The national figures that month were 73.4% and 72.3%.

How does that compare with a year earlier?

May 2023 is outside the 36 months on file, or the airport had too few reported flights that month.

Provenance

Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, Reporting Carrier On-Time Performance, file for May 2024; public domain. Domestic scheduled flights by reporting carriers, totals and averages only. The site's data runs through July 2026. Full record for SNA · methodology · corrections.